DID EVERYONE VOTE YESTERDAY?

WELL, I DIDN'T, I'M NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, YOU CAN'T

BLAME ANY OF THIS ON ME.

BUT NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF THE FINAL RESULTS, IT WAS A

HISTORIC NIGHT.

IT REALLY WAS.

FOR EXAMPLE, YESTERDAY, MORE WOMEN WON THEIR ELECTIONS AND

HE ARE NOW GOING TO CONGRESS THAN

EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) YOU

>> James: REALLY INCREDIBLE.

IN RESPONSE, REPUBLICANS WERE LIKE, "THIS

ISN'T WHAT WE MEANT WHEN WE SAID A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE

HOUSE."

HERE'S ANOTHER FIRST: DEMOCRAT JARED POLIS WON HIS ELECTION IN

COLORADO, MAKING HIM THE NATION'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO

SERVE AS GOVERNOR.

YES!

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: THE FIRST GAY

GOVERNOR!

FINALLY, AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN WHO KNOWS ABOUT MY TONY AWARD.

THINK ABOUT THIS THOUGH!

COLORADO HAS LEGAL MARIJUANA, GREAT BEER,

AND NOW A PROGRESSIVE GAY GOVERNOR-- IS IT JUST ME, OR IS

COLORADO BECOMING THE COOLEST FLOOR IN AMERICA'S DORMITORY?

AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WON HER ELECTION IN NEW YORK

YESTERDAY, MAKING HER THE YOUNGEST WOMAN EVER ELECTED TO

CONGRESS.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: YES, ASTONISHING.

OCASIO-CORTEZ IS JUST 29 YEARS OLD.

SHE HAS ALREADY DONE SO MUCH WITH HER LIFE, IT'S HARD TO

BELIEVE SHE AND I ARE THE EXACT SAME AGE.

(LAUGHTER) >> James: ALSO, IN A NIGHT OF

MANY FIRSTS, THE FIRST TWO NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WERE

ELECTED TO CONGRESS: SHARICE DAVIDS FROM KANSAS AND DEB

HAALAND FROM NEW MEXICO.

SO LAST NIGHT'S WINNERS INCLUDED AN OPENLY GAY MAN, TWO NATIVE

AMERICAN WOMEN, AND A 29-YEAR-OLD LATINA.

ALTHOUGH WHEN STAFFERS TOLD TRUMP, HE WAS LIKE, "OH, I LOVE

THIS JOKE, KEEP GOING!" BUT THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE

NIGHT, OF COURSE, WAS THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FLIPPED, AND DEMOCRATS NOW CONTROL THE HOUSE.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: GRADE NEWS FOR

DEMOCRATS.

INCREDIBLE.

LIBERALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE CELEBRATING LIKE ALMOND MILK WAS

50% OFF.

IT'S BEEN EIGHT YEARS SINCE DEMOCRATS LAST CONTROLLED THE

HOUSE.

TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW LONG EIGHT YEARS IS, IN 2010, WE WERE

ONLY ON "IRON MAN 2."

THAT WAS THREE THORS AGO!

BUT TRULY IT WAS A HISTORIC NIGHT.

I WHERE SOME 114 MILLION BALLOTS

WERE CAST THIS YEAR.

IT WAS A RECORD FOR MIDTERM VOTER TURNOUT, AS WELL AS A

RECORD FOR THE NUMBER OF GROWN ADULTS EXCITED ABOUT GETTING

STICKERS.

(LAUGHTER) >> James: I GET IT, YOU

VOTED.

SO AMERICA HAD THEIR SAY LAST NIGHT.

AND PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD HIS SAY.

HE HAD A RAMBLING 90 MINUTE PRESS CONFERENCE.

ESPECIALLY THE REPUBLICANS WHO CAMPAIGNED AGAINST HIM.

HE SAID THIS.

>> MIKE KAUFMAN, TOO BAD KAUFMAN.

AND SHE LOST.

AND BARBARA COMSTOCK, SHE COULD HAVE RUN THAT RACE BUT SHE

DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY EMBRACE.

PETER ROSCOM.

ERIC PAULSON WANT DIDN'T WANT THE EMBRACE.

I'M NOT SURE IF I SHOULD BE HAPPY OR SAD.

>> James: I THINK SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LISTENING TO THE NEW

SINGLE, SOMETHING NEXT.

SINGLE, SOMETHING NEXT.

"THANK YOU, NEXT!" BUT SERIOUSLY, THOSE WERE SOME

BRUTAL DISSES.

TRUMP IS LIKE THE PUSHA T OF POLITICS.

TRUMP'S GOING PERSON-BY-PERSON AND INSULTING EVERY ONE OF HIS

FORMER COLLEAGUES.

IS THIS A PRESS CONFERENCE OR HIS LAST DAY OF WORK AT RADIO

SHACK?

"JENENE, SCREW YOU.

MIKE, IT WAS ME WHO ATE YOUR LUNCH.

YOU KNOW WHY?

BECAUSE YOU'RE A WHINY LITTLE BITCH."

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) F

>> James: BUT AT ONE POINT, TRUMP CALLED FOR BIPARTISANSHIP,

PERHAPS USHERING IN A KINDER, GENTLER ATTITUDE FROM THE WHITE

HOUSE.

THEN REPORTERS STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS AND THIS HAPPENED.

>> I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF YOU PLEASE.

SIT DOWN PLEASE.

SIT DOWN.

SIT DOWN.

I DIDN'T CALL YOU.

EXCUSE ME I'M NOT RESPONDING TO YOU.

I'M TALKING TO THIS GENTLEMAN.

WOULD YOU PLEASE SIT DOWN?

YOU RUDELY INTERRUPTED HIM.

THAT'S SUCH A RACIST QUESTION.

I THINK YOU SHOULD LET ME RUN THE COUNTRY.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

YAHOO, I HOPE THEY'RE DOING WELL, WHEN YOU REPORT FAKE NEWS

WHICH CNN DOES A LOT YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.

>> James: WHAT?

I THINK HE'S TAKING LOSING THE HOUSE VERY WELL.

YOU KNOW WHAT?

FOR A GUY WHO'S DODGED THE DRAFT FIVE TIMES, TRUMP SURE SEEMS TO

LOVE COMBAT.

THIS IS THE THING ABOUT TRUMP, SURE, HE'S INCREDIBLE ON

TWITTER, BUT THE MATERIAL REALLY COMES TO LIFE WHEN HE'S

PERFORMING LIVE.

THEN AT ONE POINT, A REPORTER TRIED TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD WITH A

LITTLE, WELL... OPEN MIC ROUTINE, AND IT DIDN'T END WELL.

TAKE A LOOK.

>> I WAS TEMPTED TO ASK YOU WHY YOU LIKE OPRAH SO MUCH.

>> WHY DO I ASK OPRAH, WHAT KIND OF A QUESTION IS THAT?

ACOMEDIAN HERE!

>> James: YOU GET A CRINGE!

AND YOU GET A CRINGE!

AND YOU GET A CRINGE!

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: AND THEN, NO LESS

THAN TWO HOURS AFTER HIS WILD PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESIDENT

TRUMP DID WHAT HE HAD BEEN THREATENING TO DO FOR MONTHS,

HE AND HE FIRED ATTORNEY GENERAL

JEFF SESSIONS.

SO IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER CONFEDERATE MONUMENT GOT TAKEN

DOWN TODAY.

WHAT?

WHAT?

I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING, JEFF SESSIONS IS LEAVING SOME

VERY, VERY TINY SHOES TO FILL.

AND FINALLY, IT TURNS OUT JEFF SESSIONS WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO

GOT BANNED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY.

THIS JUST HAPPENED, CNN REPORTER JIM ACOSTA-- HERE HE IS AT THE

WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY VERBALLY SPARRING WITH

TRUMP.

WELL, AS A RESULT OF THAT SPARRING, HE HAD HIS PRESS PASS

STRIPPED AWAY TONIGHT, SO HE WON'T BE ABLE TO ENTER THE WHITE

HOUSE ANYMORE.

OR AS MELANIA CALLED HIM, "LUCKY BASTARD."

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: NOW THAT'S A BUMMER

FOR JIM ACOSTA SEEN HERE BUT IT'S GOING TO OPEN UP A

GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR CNN'S NEWEST ANCHOR, CRIM BLACOSTA.